Say you have a bunch of files in a directory and you want to turn them all into random file names. Run this command from Bash:
for fname in *; do mv "$fname" $RANDOM.fil; done |
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By Paul Anderson / October 3, 2016 — GNU/Linux
Say you have a bunch of files in a directory and you want to turn them all into random file names. Run this command from Bash:
for fname in *; do mv "$fname" $RANDOM.fil; done |
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